Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-10-27

convention at Fargo q short tim'
ago was q great gathering of tn,
representative men of that section
1t means success for the moyemen.
in North Dakota and an overwhel
ming majority in the SOUTH
Canton Advocate.
SHEEP FOR SALE,
On account of going ont of tn
business, we offer our entire stool
sheep for sale-300 in number
Choice Ewes and lambs in lots t,
suit purchasers, from | to 100. W,
also have a few good COWS at bot
tom figures. c. Il Ed G. WARNEl
The Andover Gazette of las
week has notices Of the birth o
four young ladies in that vicinity
usual weight snd all healthy. Bro.
HAYNES, in commenting on the
subject, says that the dirth of youn.
ladies in Dakota promises, in tis
near future, to be q thing of tbs
past.
The Herald force dined Will
us one day last week. 1t was feast
day and we had a good dinner and
q good time at the expense of the
head of the table---the time w
mean. Come again, boys, soon Ii
you expect to eat a bachelors din
ner. We have no reference to
illusions.
Having sold my wagon shop
and being DESTROYS to straighted up
my accounts, | would say to al
knowing themselves indebted to me
to call and settle your account on
or before Nov. LIST. All accounts not
settled by that date will be placed
in the hands of an attorney fol-
collection. j. NJ. HARRIS.
The monument to Francis Scott
Key, author of the "Star Spangled
Banner" provided for in the win of
james Lick, to be set up in the
Park at San Francisco, is now on
Its way from Rome in an Italian
sailing vessel, and is expected to
reach the former city by January
LIST. 1t is the work Of w. w.
Story.
Matthias Ackles, of Scotland
twp, was in town Saturday and
made us a pleasant call. We have
been acquainted with Matt for Is
years, and a better man does not
1--we. His visit was most acceptable.
Come again, old fellow, our latch
string is always out. OF course he
deposited something for the Re-
PORTER another year.
1.-The first man who ever played
a banjo was Joe Sweeney, and his
instrument was all excayated gourd
with four strings. Joe gave his
first tunes in public in a circus tent.
lie was a deck hand working on the
canal from Richmond to Lynch
burg. He afterwards was with
Negro minstrel companies, and was
a great feature both in this country
and Europe.
The ~artesian water power is
saving the Yankton pressed brick
company seven dollars each day.
This was the amount formerly ex-
pended for fuel. Counting 800
working days in a year, this repre-
sents IN income of 81, 100 per an
mum and placing the actual number
of working days at one-half 300,
which is a very low estimate, the
brick company is ahead $1,000
each year.-Yankton Press.
The boy who is seen on the
streets these days with his head tied
up in a rag, and having a heavy
club in one hand and his mouth in
the other hand is a member of a
Skinny club and has just finished a
game with some of his fellow suf-
ferers. The game of shiny is worse
than base ball in its risks to life
and limb, and the boy who plays it
will by and by want to draw a pen
sion.
Keep it before the people that
for crime and help to the poor,
produced by whisky since the
organization of Day county we have
paid out IS, 500, and from the sa-
looms we have received in the way
of license 81, 700-leaving a balance
against the tax payer of THREE
THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED DOL
LARS Smart thing to do amt it
pay out 8 1900 for seven or eight
fellows to make a fortune. Lots OF
business i'll that.
ri. G. Adams, editor Of the
Webster REPORTER AND FARMER, is
stumping Day county in the inter-
est of prohibition. Bro. Adams ia
one of Dakota's brightest newspaper
men, and W. r pleased to see HIM
using his talents in SO good a cause.
--DeSmet Leader.
The Leader may think the SUBJ
ject of the above sketch is wasting
all his sweetness on the desert air,
so to speak, but he isn't, though
Hush! Family secrets! Wouldn't
say a VOID for the world. Keer
quiet and wait for further develop.
ments.
"A great many bad things wert
done by about oil the churches il
existence some two or three hun
ded years ago, But it was the spir
1t Of the age and not the spirit of re
ligion hat was responsible. 1t i
cloves labor lost" to rake up tn,
sins and failures of our ancestors
We shall find them q bad lot al
around, if we are too curious in thu
matter. The good people who mur
dered their fellows in the name o
the Lord are dead, let them rest.
Another summer has tumblet
into toomb OF ages, and the figh
of time has brought us to anothe
autumn. The golden sunshine j
on the hill-sides in ripping waves
! and all nature is a beautiful repre-
sentation of life, in its evening
) where seren content enyelops i
with a rich and joyous spirit all it
own--a very benediction to a lif
/ glowing, studded with the jewels Q
I good deeds and good will to neu
The landscape now is hazy, and til
dim and murky atmosphere rofec
/ the rays of light in long, billow
undulating lina9 In tho narnino